What exercise are you doing that burns the most calories?

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  • Jxnsmma
    Jxnsmma Posts: 919 Member
    pushups a 100 everyday burns 100 cals I do 4 sets. I also do 50 squats and 100 crunches then 200 of the abdominal twist . :smile:

    You do 400 pushups a day? :huh:

    m'kay...
  • Amberonamission
    Amberonamission Posts: 836 Member
    Swimming laps
  • CyclngChick
    CyclngChick Posts: 57 Member
    Cycling! I burned 800 calories for 2 hours of mountain biking last weekend!
  • jaysonhijinx
    jaysonhijinx Posts: 663 Member
    Basketball - full court game. Can sometimes play for up to 2-3 hours in a single afternoon/evening and burn some ridiculous amounts with all the running/sprinting not to mention all the jumping, haha.
  • rachelerwin
    rachelerwin Posts: 140 Member
    At the gym this morning I burned 725 calories in an hour on the elliptical.
  • WeightlifterJosey
    WeightlifterJosey Posts: 24
    It depends on what you like to do, if you get on the treadmill on the highest set and a slow pace burns more then running and is less stress on the body.
  • iwasmadeforthis
    iwasmadeforthis Posts: 6 Member
    Which one do you use? I looked at them on Amazon and was overwhelmed. I just want calories and heart rate, and something I can wear all day.
  • heybales
    heybales Posts: 18,842 Member
    Once I got my bodmedia fit monitor I found I was burning less than half of what the machine was telling me, even when I was going hard for 30 minutes at level 7 and alternating forward and backward pedalling, dripping in sweat. I wasnt making much progress on the scale, and was eating back my exercise calories. Now, I dont eat back, I avoid the eliptical an try to run instead for my cardio and have broken my plateau :)

    BMF is sadly inaccurate outside daily activities and walking or slow jogging. It has no idea based on elliptical movements what you are burning.
    Very under-inflated for true exercise.
  • heybales
    heybales Posts: 18,842 Member
    Which one do you use? I looked at them on Amazon and was overwhelmed. I just want calories and heart rate, and something I can wear all day.

    Those 2 desires won't go together, unless you buy a Garmin with Firstbeat algorithms.

    Otherwise HRM's are only for steady-state aerobic exercise over about 90 bpm up to about 150-170 depending on your fitness level, but highly inaccurate for daily activities and HIIT or weight lifting.

    Info from Polar funded study linked on this site - http://www.braydenwm.com/calburn.htm

    For the devices you wear all day, they are decent at estimating daily activity, but beyond walking and slow jogging level, are very under-reporting of calories for more intense exercise.

    http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15126727

    Sensewear makes the BodyMedia and Bodybugg units. Study pointed out when Sensewear provided specific algorithms to be used on the different exercises, much better estimate.
    But do you get to tell the BMF site what your exercise was? No, they still use the general formula's.

    the SenseWear Pro Armband significantly underestimated total energy expenditure by 14.9 +/- 17.5 kcal (6.9 +/- 8.5%) during walking exercise, 32.4 +/- 18.8 kcal (28.9 +/- 13.5%) during cycle ergometry, 28.2 +/- 20.3 kcal (17.7 +/- 11.8%) during stepping exercise, and overestimated total energy expenditure by 21.7 +/- 8.7 kcal (29.3 +/- 13.8%) during arm ergometer exercise (P < or = 0.001).
  • OliveDove18
    OliveDove18 Posts: 24
    Zumba and running.
  • yowla
    yowla Posts: 127 Member
    Running. Not only do you burn calories you are toning your stomach, butt, hips, thighs. It works everything all at once. Plus you can burn more calories in a 1/2 hr run then most exercising you do. Heck when I did a 25k I burned like 2000 calories. :smile:
  • SarahofTwins
    SarahofTwins Posts: 1,169 Member
    Jogging, running, walking, and kickboxing
  • EmilyOfTheSun
    EmilyOfTheSun Posts: 1,548 Member
    Insanity!!
  • chanixxx
    chanixxx Posts: 64
    Boxing and tennis!
  • belladonna786
    belladonna786 Posts: 1,165 Member
    running hands down!
  • ellehcimyelhsa
    ellehcimyelhsa Posts: 110
    Boxing and HIIT, usually in the form of Turbofire.
  • PapaDunx
    PapaDunx Posts: 243
    Cycling ... I burn 3000 calories a session
  • NavyKnightAh13
    NavyKnightAh13 Posts: 1,394 Member
    hands down running in my case, usually about 4 miles.
  • 1carahmeldiva
    1carahmeldiva Posts: 31
    I get great burns with either zumba (with a great, energetic instructor) or body combat (similiar to kickboxing).
  • helyg
    helyg Posts: 675 Member
    Over the course of a week I burn the most calories walking, simply because I do it every day without fail. I walk to work and back - 3 miles a day.

    I burn the most calories in the least amount of time swimming, closely followed by cycling. I also do aerobic workouts, but I'd rather swim!
  • confettibetti
    confettibetti Posts: 405 Member
    Running for me. It burns around 500 for 30 minutes.
  • bcl003
    bcl003 Posts: 331 Member
    I burn around 350 in 1 round of Jillian Michaels Ripped in 30.

    Edited to add: 1 round is around 30 minutes long.
  • wluyando
    wluyando Posts: 32 Member
    Treadmill using elevation on 7 and walking fast at 3.5 also Cage Fitness Class
  • tnqnt
    tnqnt Posts: 397 Member
    Stairmaster (basically the rotating escalator) is a calorie burner..
    Also, just personal resistance training... full body squats, lunges with weight -driven upper body movement, pushups....

    I can jack my HR too on the treadmill by doing side shuffles at 3.8 mph and 1-2 incline
  • sassafrasy
    sassafrasy Posts: 113
    I recommend HIIT training....using any type of exercise...cycling, eliptical, jump rope, running....just HIIT it...get that heart rate up there and you'll burn the most calories.
  • byHISstrength
    byHISstrength Posts: 984 Member
    ZUMBA CLASS, WITH A GREAT INSTRUCTOR!!!

    ^^This, definitely!!! And so much fun : )
  • kirsty736
    kirsty736 Posts: 65
    Elliptical & swimming for me!
  • DMW914
    DMW914 Posts: 368 Member
    Kickboxing. Depending on my intensity, it's between 600-1000 in an hour.

    ^this^
  • LALOCHA34
    LALOCHA34 Posts: 340 Member
    Kickboxing 700-850 cals burned (60 minutes)
    Jogging/Running Inclines and Stairs always makes a fierce burn
    Circuit Training
  • derekj222
    derekj222 Posts: 370 Member
    Do anything with high intensity and you will burn a lot of calories...don't take the easy way out:

    run instead of walk
    run on incline
    jump rope
    elliptical
    kickboxing
    cycling

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